I'm working....the year 11s are writing practise essays for their exam and I'm sitting here "sssshhhhing" them at regualar intervals.I shouldn't be putting my hand up for skeins of ice-creamery yarn...

(but I am.)

And I have 24 people with me to wrestle anyone else out the door who may win ahead of me... I've promised them an A+ if they help me win.

Ooh I am impressed with the 571 post number! I will just say 'give me the cloth' because I can't knit - actually I love the cloth and because I can't knit - please pick me please? I'm up to 200 posts only - but there are also some goodies from me if anyone is interested?

oh i love them both......i think the skein as i havn't done much crocheting of late and i love the colour....congrats on a amazing amount of post....your blog if fantastic and always a great read...it's made me laugh and cry at the same time....

I checked out your etsy shop before. Blimey! Lovely. I'm inspired to have a go at knitting with that lot beckoning.

But seeing as I can't knit, and therefore it would be a travesty to waste that beautiful skein of wool on me, I shall be shameless and put my hand up for the washcloth. Although, I'd probably be like that bloke in Cold Comfort Farm who just stares at his pretty new dishrag, not wanting to use it as it was intended to be used. Too perty.

OK, I've just taken a flying leap over frog, innercitygarden and the others in the scrum to reach up for the dishcloth in a very unseemly manner.Please.Thankyou.571 posts is a pretty good achievement, I say.well done and please keep going- I really enjoy your blog.

I never win anything. That being said, I can't decide which one I'd like not to win more.

On the one hand, there's the lovely wash cloth...so intricately woven in such a pretty pattern. But...it's been brought to my attention that the equally lovely Eleanor has put dibs on it before me...Perhaps I shouldn't steal it away...or should I? Yes? No. That's wrong. Thou shalt not steal lovely washcloths. Definitely no.

I think instead I'd like the skein of beautiful hand-dyed wool--which holds the promise of maybe one day using it...when I've learned to knit. Maybe it would be just what I needed to get started.

Yes. The skein. That's what I most covet.

I look forward to visiting your etsy shop, Suse. Congrats on your three years, four months and eight days! 571!

It's great to see your yarn back! It's what first attracted me to your blog and to knitting, actually. So thankyou very much for finding me a hobby I am actually sticking with! (needless to say, I love the yarn). I'm off to have a look at your shop!

Wow, Suse... 71 comments at this point and I guess I am 72. I was recently happy to receive about 10 comments about my sister being pregnant. I guess it is give always that excite people to comment.I have another window open to display your etsy shop. I am about to add you as one of my favourites. Hope to catch up for some craft again soon.EllenPS... I'd love that beautiful cloth!!!

Lovely giveaway, I'd love to win the cloth, you've done such a lovely job. I see we were both winners of the bring a friend to Sewjourn day! Looking forward to seeing you there, my lovely friend I'm bringing with me lives in a mud brick home in Eltham so I'm sure you'll have a few things in common! Luv :)Kylie

I went to Savers (on my own for the first time in many years), I piled my little cart/basket so high with clothes that people stared....remembering why I had come, I put most of them back, found the perfect pair of double sided sock needles and left with dignity and shopping budget in tact. Now I can knit socks and dream of more yarn.....all is well.

I don't really deserve either because the wash cloth is so pretty that I'd never use it to wash with, and the wool would be wasted on me because I'm not a talented knitter and would have to keep unpicking it. Now, a knitted acorn..

But congratulations on all those achievements - 3 years, 8 months and 10 days now, and counting...

Hi SuseI curtsey to one who has been blogging for quite a while - I'm still a newbie (4 months and 24 blogs posts). BlessingsJanelle - Threads of FriendshipPS Kylie & I are having a giveaway too, feel free to join in.

Gelati is such an excellent name choice.Naming yarns must be difficult - the strain of getting right! It must be like naming kids.Congrats on so many posts. You are indeed an old hand at this blogging business.I'd be delighted to win either. Really, I would.

I just wanted to say hi. I found your blog today through reading the comments on Jane Brocker's blog. I've really enjoyed reading your posts and looking at all your lovely photos. Glad to have found you!

Happy 3years 4months and 8 days of Blogging to you! I'm a novice in comparison, but am so loving the idea of a giveaway - I've never see/heard of one before and feel very weird asking for the skein. Pink is my daughter's all time fave colour and yellow is her second, so I would use it to make something wonderful for her!